A Technological Study of a Canadian Thule Type-Site: Naujan (ca. AD 1300-1900)

• Published in: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française
• Main Authors: Houmard, Claire, Grønnow, Bjarne
• Other Authors: Préhistoire et Technologie (PréTech), Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), The National Museum of Denmark, ANR-11-LABX-0026,PP,Les passés dans le présent(2011)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2017
• Subjects: Central Canadian Arctic; Thule culture; Hudson Bay; Naujan; bone technology; Therkel Mathiassen; Fifth Thule Expedition; Thuléen; Arctique central; Canada; baie d’Hudson; technologie osseuse; 5e expédition de Thulé; [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory; Arctic; Hudson; Rasmussen; Repulse Bay; Arctique Central; Arctique*; greenlandic
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03988261; https://doi.org/10.3406/bspf.2017.14802

Naujan is located on the north coast of Repulse Bay in Eastern Arctic, a region occupied by the Aivilirmiut at the beginning of the 20th century. This site, the first professionally excavated in the Arctic, is generally considered as the ‘type-site’ for the Eastern Arctic Thule culture. In 1922, dur...